Trump’s win and America’s divisiveness have left some Americans feeling hopeless ― ---but this country has reckoned with this kind divisiveness before. We’ve gone through Civil War, after all. And Reconstruction. And those decades of Jim Crow that gave way to what we know today as the Civil Rights Movement, an era that more and more feels eerily similar to the one we’re living in today.

EX-SLAVE MARY FIELDS FELT AT HOME IN MONTANA, WHETHER WORKING IN A CONVENT OR MANAGING A MAIL ROUTE.

A Black gun-totin' female in the American wild west. She was six feet tall; heavy; tough; short-tempered; two-fisted; powerful; and packed a pair of six-shooters and an eight or ten-gauge shotgun. A legend in her own time, she was also known as STAGECOACH MARY.

Miss Cleo, the embattled telephone psychic famous for turning the phrase “call me now for your free reading!” into a cultural meme, has died at 53 after a battle with cancer.

According to TMZ, which has confirmed with Cleo’s rep, the clairvoyant, entrepreneur, and actress — if you didn’t know, her accent was fake — died on Tuesday after fighting colon cancer that tragically spread to both her...

?Who Prince Killed @ 57?]]>84Ken-Norton-former-heavyweight-champion-diesWed, 15 Jun 2016 18:41:55 +0000https://destee.com/threads/ken-norton-former-heavyweight-champion-dies.86863/
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Ken Norton frustrated Ali three times in all, including their final bout at Yankee Stadium where he was sure he had beaten him once again.

Norton, who died Wednesday at the age of 70, lost that fight for the heavyweight title.

FAMILY BACKGROUND: One of 17 children of Samuel and Patsy McLeod, former slaves. Mary worked in the cotton fields with her family. Married Albertus...

Mary Macleod Bethune]]>2Igbo LandingFri, 05 Sep 2014 21:26:16 +0000https://destee.com/threads/igbo-landing.57146/
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The story that gives Ebos Landing its name is one of the most colorful and enduring tales in Ebos Landing Georgia's rich literary history. Better known as the "Myth of the Flying Africans," this narrative has been told and embellished for 200 years in the form of local legends, children's stories, movies, novels, and television shows. Based on an actual historical event, this remarkable tale of an Ebo (or Igbo) slave rebellion on St. Simons Island has become a powerful...

]]>James Brown: The Hardest Working A-hole in Show BusinessSat, 09 Aug 2014 16:02:10 +0000https://destee.com/threads/james-brown-the-hardest-working-a-hole-in-show-business.81276/
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James Brown’s music and lyrics are woven into the politics of Black America’s most productive
decade, the Sixties. However, JB’s “relationship to the Black people he touched most directly – those
who worked for him – was cruel, petty, and contemptuous.”

“’Mr. Brown’ held only one Black person in high regard: himself.”

When James Brown died on Christmas day, 2006, I wrote an article for the brand new Black Agenda
Report...

James Brown: The Hardest Working A-hole in Show Business]]>1Whitney Houston - an Ancestor at age 48Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:15:15 +0000https://destee.com/threads/whitney-houston-an-ancestor-at-age-48.70707/
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I just heard that Whitney has transitioned ...

Destee]]>56Booker Wright - Booker's PlaceTue, 10 Jun 2014 15:29:52 +0000https://destee.com/threads/booker-wright-bookers-place.80743/
https://destee.com/threads/booker-wright-bookers-place.80743/invalid@example.com (cherryblossom)cherryblossomBooker's Place: A Mississippi Story is a 2012 documentary film about Booker Wright, an African-American waiter who worked in a restaurant forwhites only. In 1965, Wright appeared in Mississippi: A Self...

Booker Wright - Booker's Place]]>5Sam Greenlee, Author of ‘The Spook Who Sat By the Door,’ Has DiedTue, 20 May 2014 08:45:11 +0000https://destee.com/threads/sam-greenlee-author-of-%E2%80%98the-spook-who-sat-by-the-door-%E2%80%99-has-died.80508/
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Writer and filmmaker Sam Greenlee, best known for his 1969 novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” passed away on Monday. He was 83. The novel tells the story of a CIA agent who uses his training to turn a Chicago street gang into a Black guerrilla army was made into a film in 1973....

Destee]]>6Writers of the Harlem RenaissanceFri, 14 Mar 2014 20:00:16 +0000https://destee.com/threads/writers-of-the-harlem-renaissance.32611/
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If our children are educated about this wonderful part of their heritage it will be a great counter to the false notion that knowing how to write is for whites.

The Movement was organized mainly by Alain Locke and documented most notably in the workes of historian Arnold Rampersad. I used his works along with "Terrible...